Resources
Everything you need to protect yourself, support others, and fight back.
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ICE Raid / Immigration
Hotline: 1-844-363-1423
Text: "AYUDA" to 237-255
Know Your Rights: You do NOT have to open the door. You do NOT have to answer questions without a lawyer.
Trans Crisis Support
Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860 (peer-run, 24/7)
Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386 (youth, 24/7)
Text: START to 678-678 (Trevor)
Abortion Access
National Abortion Federation: 1-800-772-9100
ineedana.com — find clinics in your state
Plan C Pills — medication abortion info
Arrested at a Protest
National Lawyers Guild: 212-679-5100
Know your rights: stay silent until you have a lawyer. Do not sign anything.
Immigration Defense
Know-your-rights guides, legal directories, rapid-response networks, and bond funds. If someone you know is detained or facing deportation, these are the first resources to reach for.
Know Your Rights
What you can and cannot be forced to do when ICE or Border Patrol comes to your door, workplace, or community.
Find an Immigration Lawyer
Directories of pro bono and low-cost immigration attorneys. Time matters — legal representation dramatically changes outcomes.
Rapid Response Networks
Organizations that mobilize quickly when raids, arrests, or detentions happen. Many operate 24/7 hotlines.
Immigration Bond Funds
Funds that pay immigration bonds to get detained people out while their cases are pending. Bonds can run into the thousands.
Trans & LGBTQ+ Rights
Legal defense, healthcare navigation, crisis support, and community organizations fighting anti-trans legislation state by state.
Legal Defense
Organizations actively litigating anti-trans laws and defending LGBTQ+ rights in courts across the country.
Healthcare Access
Finding gender-affirming care, especially in states where access is being restricted or criminalized.
- Planned Parenthood
- National Center for Trans Equality
- GLMA Health Professionals — provider directory
Crisis Support
24/7 support lines staffed by people who understand what you're going through. No judgment, no scripts.
Community & Advocacy
National organizations doing media, policy, and community work to defend LGBTQ+ rights.
Reproductive Justice
Finding care, funding access, legal protection, and digital safety — especially critical in states where abortion has been banned or severely restricted since Dobbs.
Find Care in Your State
Up-to-date clinic finders that account for current state laws. Check these before calling — laws change fast.
- I Need An A
- Abortion Finder
- Plan C Pills — medication abortion information
Funding
Abortion funds help cover the cost of care — which can be hundreds or thousands of dollars, especially if travel is required.
- National Network of Abortion Funds
- Brigid Alliance
- Yellow Brick Fund — travel + lodging aid
Legal Protection
Organizations providing legal defense for patients, providers, and anyone targeted for seeking or facilitating abortion access.
Digital Safety
In states criminalizing abortion, your phone, browser history, and location data can be used against you. Protect yourself.
- Digital Defense Fund
- Use Signal for all related messaging
- Use Tor Browser for research on clinics
- Turn off location services on your phone
Legal Rights & Support
Know your rights before you need them. These resources cover protest rights, arrest procedures, bail funds, and legal defense organizations.
Know Your Rights
What police can and cannot do. What you must and must not say. What happens if you're arrested.
Protest Rights Specifically
Detailed guides on what's protected under the First Amendment at protests, rallies, and demonstrations — and what's not.
Bail Funds
Community-run funds that pay bail for people arrested at protests or in other contexts. Getting out of jail matters — jail itself is punishment.
Legal Defense Organizations
Organizations that take on civil rights cases, challenge discriminatory laws, and defend people targeted by the state.
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Earthjustice — environmental & civil rights law
- Democratic Socialists of America — policy advocacy & legislative fights
Digital Security
If you're an activist, an organizer, or just someone who doesn't want to be tracked, these tools and guides are essential. Assume you are being watched. Act accordingly.
Secure Communication
Encrypted messaging and email. Signal is the gold standard for messaging. Use it for anything sensitive.
- Signal — encrypted messaging (use this)
- Tor Browser — anonymous web browsing
- ProtonMail — encrypted email
- Session — no phone number required
Password & Account Security
A password manager and two-factor authentication are the two most impactful steps you can take right now.
- Bitwarden — password manager (free, open source)
- YubiKey — physical two-factor authentication
- Have I Been Pwned? — check if your data has been breached
Remove Your Data from the Internet
Data brokers sell your address, phone number, and personal details. These tools help you opt out — or do it yourself.
- DeleteMe — paid service that removes your data
- Optery — automated opt-out service
- Simple Opt Out — DIY guide to opting out
- California DROP — one request deletes your data from 500+ brokers (CA residents only)
- Easy Opt Outs — straightforward opt-out links for major data brokers
Comprehensive Guides
Step-by-step security guides written for activists. Start here if you don't know where to begin.
- EFF Surveillance Self-Defense — the gold standard
- Security in a Box — tactical tech for activists
- Privacy Guides — curated tool recommendations
- Activist Checklist — harm-reduction approach, travel & protest security
- Infosec for Activists — beginner-friendly, covers what to avoid and why
- Access Now Digital Security Helpline — free 24/7 live help if you are under attack (10 languages)
- CLDC Security — tiered guides by risk level for dissident organizers
- Activist Handbook — threat-level framework for orgs & individuals
Mutual Aid Networks
Mutual aid is the practice of community members directly supporting each other — without bureaucracy, without gatekeeping. It's not charity. It's solidarity in action.
Find a Local Mutual Aid Group
Mutual aid networks exist in most cities and many rural areas. Find one near you, or start one.
- Mutual Aid Hub — searchable directory
- Mutual Aid Wiki — guides and theory
Start Your Own Network
Templates, toolkits, and guides for organizing mutual aid in your community. You don't need experience — just neighbors.
- Mutual Aid Toolkit
- Big Door Brigade — mutual aid organizing guides
Basic Needs
Food, housing, and general community resources for people in crisis.
- Feeding America — food bank locator
- 211.org — dial 2-1-1 for local resources
Community Defense
Organizations focused on protecting communities from state violence, police brutality, and far-right activity.
Housing & Tenant Rights
If you're facing eviction or a landlord is retaliating, know your rights and find help fast. Eviction is not instant — you have legal protections.
- Tenants Together — CA statewide coalition, hotline at (888) 495-8020
- Justice in Housing Fund
- Renters Rising — national grassroots tenant network, eviction defense
Voter Protection
Voter suppression is a fascist tactic. Know your rights at the polls, report problems in real time, and make sure every eligible person in your life actually votes.
Know Your Voting Rights
What ID you need, how to register, what happens if your name isn't on the roll. Varies by state — check yours.
- Vote.org — register and check your status
- League of Women Voters — 100+ legal victories defending voting rights
- ACLU: Voting Rights
Report Voter Suppression
If something is wrong at the polls — long lines, intimidation, broken machines, turned-away voters — report it. Now. While it's happening.
- Our Vote Fund — report issues in real time
- Election Assistance Hotline: 1-866-OUR-VOTE (1-866-687-8683)
- Fair Fight Action — documents suppression, grassroots voter protection
Election Integrity Organizations
Groups on the ground defending fair elections, fighting gerrymandering, and training poll watchers.
Get Others to Vote
Turnout is power. These tools help you register people, send reminders, and get rides to the polls.
- TurboVote — registration + reminders
- VoteAmerica — early vote finder + mail ballot tools
- VoteRides — free rides to the polls
Workers' Rights
Union-busting, wage theft, and unsafe conditions are tools of the same power structures that breed fascism. Knowing your rights at work is knowing your rights, period.
Know Your Rights at Work
What your employer can and cannot do. What you're entitled to. What retaliation looks like — and what to do about it.
- National Domestic Workers Alliance — organizes 2.2M workers, won Bills of Rights in 12 states
- Wage Justice Center — free legal aid, mobile clinics for low-wage workers
- National Employment Law Project
Organize Your Workplace
Thinking about unionizing? These resources walk you through the process — from first conversations to finding support and taking action.
- Workers' Center Network — national network, find a worker center near you
- Labor Union Organizing Guide
- AFL-CIO — find a union for your industry
Report Wage Theft
Wage theft — unpaid overtime, withheld tips, misclassification — is the largest form of theft in the US. Report it.
- Justice at Work — free multilingual legal help, recovered $12.5M for workers
- WageTheft.org — state-by-state guides
- National Employment Law Project
Worker Funds & Support
Strike funds, legal aid for workers, and mutual aid networks specifically for people who've been retaliated against or fired.
- Strike Class — connect with strike funds
- National Workers' Center Network
- GoFundMe Strike Funds — community-funded
Monitoring the Far Right
Watchdog organizations, investigative journalists, and data projects that track far-right movements, legislation, and violence. Know what's happening. Know who's behind it.
Extremism Watchdogs
Organizations that systematically track and report on far-right groups, hate groups, and extremist movements.
- SPLC Intelligence Project
- Hope Not Hate — far-right monitoring (UK & global)
- Right Wing Watch
- Moonshot CVE — counter-extremism research
Investigative Journalism
Reporters and outlets doing deep investigative work on far-right networks, corruption, and disinformation.
- ProPublica
- Bellingcat — OSINT investigations
- Unicorn Riot — independent media
Track Legislation
Tools for following the laws being passed that directly affect your community — immigration, trans rights, voting, abortion.
- Democracy Docket
- Brennan Center for Justice
- OpenSecrets — tracks money in politics, who funds what
Data & Analysis
Datasets and analysis tools for understanding political violence, money in politics, and media ecosystems.
- ACLED — political violence data
- Media Matters — media accountability
- OpenSecrets — money in politics
Resources Are Tools
Use them to protect yourself, support others, and build power. Don't just bookmark this page — act on it.